Job Description

SaaS Product Development Group at Barco

SaaS (Software As A Service) Product Development group at GEAX is focused to build solutions to drive digital transformation for variety of industries in both visualization and collaboration domain for enterprise, healthcare and entertainment markets.

Barco weConnect SaaS solution delivers bright learning outcomes in digital era. weConnect drives engaging and impactful experience for any type of organization for example, Corporate learning & development, Higher education or Corporate meetings & events. weConnect enables impactful real life teaching and training experience for all onsite, remote and hybrid modes.

Barco ClickShare and XMS SaaS solution delivers smarter way of working, visualizing and collaborating in a workplace to benefit organization from #1 competitive advantage - human engagement. ClickShare offers wireless solutions for all types of collaboration, presentation and conferencing to create a productive, connected and engaging working environment. XMS SaaS solution provides straightforward and simple way to manage all A/V and collaboration tools in a workplace.

Barco NexxisCare SaaS solution helps medical professionals enable better health outcomes and work more efficiently in an increasingly complex healthcare enterprise. NexxisCare SaaS solutions offers unique fiber quality monitoring capabilities to assure surgical video availability and indisputable reliability. NexxisCare allows hospitals to stay two steps ahead of any issue, and gain control in unpredictable situations with heat monitoring and video instability trend analysis.

Reliable, on-the-spot information makes a difference for our customer to keep their business up and running, ensure availability of critical services, or respond to incidents in time. Barco helps customer to collect, visualize and share critical information, so they can make the most optimal decisions. We bring next generation hybrid collaboration, proactive monitoring and management SaaS solutions that uses intelligent software to simplify and accelerate the delivery of new solutions, services and business insights. Providing with new ways to deliver and manage critical experience.

About the Role

R&D Leader is a management role at Barco and leads one or more product squads. The R&D leader is responsible for co-developing the vision and leading software product development teams in a specific site. He/she develops and communicates the strategic direction for the software teams He/she has final accountability for the delivery, the performance & the people leadership of the different squads. He/she provides the final level of advice and recommendations to maximize the outcomes of software product development investments to the business leaders at different divisions of Barco. He/she works closely with various teams to maximize engagement and defines skill growth and location strategies

We are seeking highly accomplished Software Development Lead who can be part of the CDIO Software group at Barco Noida. The person should preferably have worked as Software Development Manager in any Cloud product development organization and has experience in developing and delivering software products in agile methodology. He/she should have a great combination software design skills and technical communication skills. The person should be driven and have a good combination of managerial skills (people, product and project) and software design skills. He/She should have managed teams of the size of around 10-15 software professionals. The right candidate should be passionate about software and technology product development, excellent communicator, comfortable with ambiguous environments, and can move fast, bring people and technology together.

Specific details about the role are as follows

As part of this role you will be responsible for leading multiple software development squads for Barco's SaaS Product Development group.

This group is responsible for developing various SaaS solution in Enterprise, Entertainment and Healthcare domain which are deployed on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure. As part of this role you will be managing and lead a team of around 10-15 developers across multiple Agile Squads.

You will be involved in and expected to contribute on design, development of functional and nonfunctional components for scalable, resilient and reliable multi-tenant Barco Cloud Services.

You will also be involved in Supportability, Serviceability and Deployability aspect of Cloud Services which can help Barco Software Development groups achieve desired SLA for their cloud services.

You will work closely with Developers and Product Owners, System and Solution architects as well as DevOps Architects across different locations to define and gain adoption of clean, well-designed contracts and best practices across the entire product line.

Key Responsibilities

Thought Leadership

Identifies technology trends and behaviors/competences that may support or impede the success of the business in our agile and digital way of working.

Knows the software ecosystem and players in the region to boost capabilities and leverage knowledge/practices/insights

Drives the continued change management needed in the site to make it a world class software center

Leads strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and acts as a senior business partner in this matter.

Creates/recommends methodologies, standards, best practices that can support the teams & the business

People Leadership

Proactively drives team member development and inter team dynamics to increase engagement, team efficiency and effectiveness and to enable long term employability

Stimulates an inspiring agile culture of trust and empowerment with a global mindset

Acts as an organization, team and talent builder of several cross functional teams and with the involved businesses, taking into account the future competence needs

Participates as a member of the management team in establishing governance processes to ensure that people & organizational objectives are achieved (performance, talent, reward, onboarding, people planning)

Results Leadership

Plans or implements objectives in coordination with other R&D Leaders to strengthen the vision, to maximize returns on investment and/or to increase productivity.

Develops and tracks the annual operating and team budgets for purchasing, staffing, and operations.

About the Successful Candidate

The successful candidate is a self-motivated leader who can deal with complex problems, has a vision to take the organization to the next level. He/She should be able to understand complex SaaS product requirements and should have excellent stake holder management capabilities. The candidate must be experienced in developing applications as well and should be able to understand the complexities of software development for Hardware Devices and Cloud.

Preferred Skills and Experience

We are seeking experience with the following technologies/domains:

B.Tech/B.E./M.Tech/B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline

At least 12-18 years of experience in building Enterprise software products and Cloud Services out of which last 3-5 years in Software Development Manager responsibilities.

Has a good understanding of Azure and Amazon cloud platform.

Must have used and developed Site Reliability Practices SaaS/PaaS services using popular Cloud Monitoring and logging framework and have hands on experience on managing database for large SaaS/PaaS services.

Must have managed and lead 24/7 production operations for multitenant SaaS/PaaS services in a multi cloud deployment.

Prior experience in Leading product and cloud technology teams across diverse technology stack on C++/Node.js/Java preferably Multi-tenant SaaS/PaaS Services using microservices architecture on any of the cloud environments AWS/Azure/Oracle Public Cloud.

Must be familiar with containers technologies and ideally should be exposed to any of the full stack technology stack.

Proven ability to develop and ship high quality software products in Agile development environments.

Should have high emotional quotient, self-driven and shows technology leadership in complex and ambiguous situations.

Barco is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.